This article argues that governments have a constructive and necessary role to play in regulating and monitoring social network sites, and uses the social media company Facebook Inc. and its ever-evolving predicaments with privacy as a case study.

In this poster, a model of digital policy literacy is described. The model is designed to serve as an intervention expanding the core elements of media and digital literacy to encompass digital policy as a key literacy attribute.

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The Young Canadians, Participatory Digital Culture, and Policy Literacy project respects the privacy of its sites’ visitors and users. All forms of identification (names, addresses, postal codes, phone numbers, IP addresses, email addresses) will never be collected to personally identify anyone, nor will this information be shared with anyone else.